Hello
classmates! Today I am going to talk about an article very important to Psychology
and especially to Juridical Psychology. This information was published by the site www.theguardian.com and this is the link http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/10/prison-education-standards-ofsted
This article addresses about the inefficiency of the
educational programs of the prisons in England and the criticizes that this
situation have caused. The article shows the
opinion of Mateo Coffey, national director of further education and skills at the education watchdog (Ofsted).
He says that exist a great number of prisoners that no have employability skills, meaning they are less likely to
find a job. This situation is very alarming because the researches show that the work is one of factors more
important to reduce the relapse, approximately 30% and 50%. In addition,
Coffey says that is very expensive to the Estate the maintenance of the
prisoners.
Moreover, recent research shows that a
great number of men and woman in prisons in England and Wales lack of qualifications
and insufficient of literacy skills.
Also, Mateo Coffey says that the prisons
that work with institution that help develop vocational abilities are rare
cases.
Finally, the article shows the vision
of Jeremy Wright, who is the prisons minister.
He says that the relapse is too high but that they are working with
different institutions to resolve this problem.

This problem is transverse to a large number of countries. Chile is no exception.
ResponderEliminarIt makes me laugh that politicians and people in general them believe that criminals in prison will be transformed into good citizens.
This is a interesting problem that could be work from different disciplines like sociology, psychology, education, etc.
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